Brussels, Illinois.
Typical home $211,440 (+11.9% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$369 (+50%) since Dec 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $22,543 +12%
- $188,897$211,440 since Sep 2025
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Brussels$1,110
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Brussels, IL rose 11.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brussels, Calhoun County, Illinois
Brussels is a village of 116 people in Calhoun County. Half its households earn more than $55,875 a year and half less, against $93,203 across Calhoun County. Unemployment in Calhoun County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Calhoun County work in schools and health care, then farming.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Brussels is a very small village in Calhoun County, Illinois, a quiet place where neighbors tend to know one another. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, and summers are hot, peaking in July. Rain and melted snow add up to a wet year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in farming, forestry and mining, in shops, or in the building trades. Few people work from home, and household incomes here are below the county's. Across Calhoun County, fewer people are out of work than a year earlier.
Things to do. Pere Marquette State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. Two Rivers National Wildlife Refuge, also a protected area, is a short drive away, and the Illinois River, a river, is too.
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- 39 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Calhoun County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Calhoun County had 744 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the St. Charles County Airport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Calhoun County
- Calhoun CUSD 40School district86FTE
- Brussels CUSD 42School district28FTE
School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brussels’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Calhoun County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Brussels home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brussels$211,440
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Brussels address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brussels — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.